THE DANBURY REPOHTER-POST.
VOLUME XVI.
Reporter and Pest.
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tkaa aWeve ratee.
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PROFESSIONAL CJIRVS.
U HAYMORE; "
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Mt Airy N, C.
Special attention fciven to the collection of
el el ma.
W. F. CARTER,
dtrro&.Yßr-.iT-lr* r,
MT. AIUY, SOKKY CO., N. L
Practlcea wherever hiaaervlces are wantd.
MefliU rHon sam l r. eoonwiN.
IUIV HKkOEKSOS. Illtu'u W. BACOX
WOOD, BACON & CO
Importer* and Jobber* of
Dltr GOODS, NOTIONS,
WHITE GOODS, ETC.
No». 300-311 Maiket St.,
PHIL ALELPHIA, PA.
Partial having
CUT MICA
fer Mil will find it to their interest to
***respend with
A. 0. SO HOON MAKER,
158 William St., New York.
«. X. LKfTWICK.
with
Wlßfit, ELLETT t CRC.MP,
RICHMOND, TA.,
Wholesale D»*lors is
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, AC.
Promptattention paid to orders, sad satis
etiem *a»r«nt»ed.
P&. Kifyinta Slati Prifn Onodi « tfiertalty
March,«. »
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R W. POWERS A 00.,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
Dealer! In
PAIMTS, OILS, DYES, VARNISHED
French and American
WINDOW GLASS, PUTTY, fcC.
SMOKING AND CIIEWIMI
(iIGARS, TOBACCO A SPECIALTY
ISO! Main St., Richmond, VaJ
Aa(asttm26—
~GEO. STEWART.
Tin and Sheet Iron Manu
facturer.
Opposite Farmers' Warehouse.
WIMNTttN, *. C.,
lOIFING, GUTTERING AND SPOUT
ING '
dene at ahort notice. '
Keep* constantly on hand a fine lot of |
Ceekiac and Heating Stoves. n ,
WINTER MILLINERY
AND
STAPLE NOTIONS,
oontisTiKtt or
Toys Jbc Chrint
maa GToodS.
Trlwaaeed Hall Beaaeli,
T* fait Everjbed;.
First door South of Hotel Fountain,
WINSTON, N. C
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COMPOUND
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A MILD TONIC
AMU—
A ppirr i zi]R.
A cure for Dyspepsia, Indirection and
Constipation, it promotes the secretions ot
tlie Liver ami Kidneys, and give* a gentle
'.one to the Organs, ltelicves Nneeick
Prostration following Protracted Scrvouss.
and enfeebled condition of the genual sys
tem.
MANl'ir VClt'Hr.O BT
Dr. V. 0, THOMPSON,
DRUGGIST,
Winston N. C.
T3OIV'T
BUY YOUK
TOMBSTONES
UNTIL YOU SEE
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Winston, N* C
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fl' H. CARTLAND,
And dealer in Cassimeres
fine clotiih
And Furnishing Goods
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Uader Central Ilotel.
"NOTHING SUCCEEDS I-IICE SIJCC'IWS."
DANBURY, N. 0., THURSDAY. JANUARY 5. 1888.
new fßaa'i r»a
MIBH 1,. R. I.AWDOI*.
There is no change upon the air,
No record IP the sky?
No pall like storvn comes firth to shroud
The yew about to die.
A few light elouds are on the lieaven,
A Ikw far slara aro bi iglit;
And the pale inoou shine* an she signet
On nuinyNi coinmou night.
Ah, not In heaven hut upon tarth;
Are signs of change eaprest;
The closing year has left its mark
On human brow and breast.
llow much poet with it to the grave
Of life's most predout things!
Methinks e;ich year dies on a pyre,
Like the Assyrian kings.
A flections, friendships, confidence, —
There's not a year hath died
Hut all these treasure* of the heart
Lie with it side by side.
The wheels of time work heavily;
We marvel day by day
To see how from the chain of lite
The gliding wears away.
Sad the more change of fortune's chance,
And sad the fiieud unkind;
But what has sadness like the change
That in ourselves we find?
I've wept my castle in the dust.
Wept o'er an altered brow;
•Tis far worse murmuring o'er the tears,
"Would I could weep them now!"
O, for mine early confidence,
Which like that graceful tree
Bent cordial, as if each approach
Could but in kindness be!
Then was the time the fairy Hope
My future fortune told,
Or Youth, tbe alchyinist, that turnV.
Whate'er he touch'd to gold.
But Hope's sweet words can never be
What they have been of yore:
1 am grown wiser, and believe
In fairy tiles no more.
Youth has spent his wealth and bought
The Know let '*■ he would fain
Change for forgetf ilneas, and lite
His dr**nniing lifesgain.
Tin weal j, weary, day-dreams, jvars,
I've seen aliKe depart,
Anil sull -n Care aud Discontent
Haug bnNxling o'er my heart.
Another year, another year,—
Alas! and must it b^
That time's most datk and weary wheel
Must turn again for mo?
In vain I seek from *ut the past
Some cherished wreck to save;
AfTection, feeling, hope, are dead, —
My heart Ij» Its own gntv«l
HOW THE TWKLVE PIED.
The following bnef history of the fat#
of Ihe Apostles may be new a* to those
whose reajiag has not been svangelioal
St. Matthew is supposed to bavo suf
fered martyidom, or was slain witb a
sword iu the City ef Elbopia, in Egypt.
St. .Liuke was hanged upon uti olive
tree in Greece.
St. John was put in a cauldron of
boiling oil at Rome and escaped dealb.
He afterward died a natural death at
Epbesus, in Asia.
St. James tbe Great was beheaded at
Jerusalem.
St. James tbe Less was thrown from
a pinnacle or wing of the temple and
then beaten to death with a tulle's club.
St. Phillip wss banged up against? a
pillar, at Hierapolis, a city of Phyigia.
St. Bartbolemew was flayed alive by
the command of a barbarous king.
St. Andrew was bound to a ctoss,
wheoee be preached unto t'ue people uu
tii he expired.
St. Thomas was run througii the body
witb a lance, at Coroinaodel,in the East
Indies.
St. Jude wss shot to death with ar
rows.
St Simon Zealot was crucified in
Persia.
St. Matth'as was first stoned and then
beheaded.
St. Barnabas was stoned to death by
the Jews at Salina.
Bt. Paul was beheaded at Rome by
the tyrant Nero.
WE CANNOT ALL HAVE HER.
Tkera is '« girl in the treasury de
partment ot Wilmington who oan pick
a counterfeit bill out of a pile containing
$20,000,000. There is a prise for some
man. Think of being able to sleep
o'nigttts wiihsut tbe haunting, fear
hanging like a swork ef Bunker Hill
over yonr head that them may be
a oouutei ftsii bill in your $80,000,000.
-Ex
THE GOOSE BONK.
l'on may demand opon it, said a Rook
land eounty fanner to a New York Tri
bune reporter recently, we will have an
ayes winter and a good wheat |nr, the
fMee bone says se. Tbe goeeft bone is
»ssyud by any Hoekbae eouaty
pMple as better Mtherity than Wiggins
or than their Haokensaok neigbbn De
Voo. In many fan* bosses it will soon
be fonnd bunging in tbe ball, end upon
its prediction* suuie men place tbe full,
est reliance.
fne real prophetio bone, it is claimed
eau only be obtained frras a«p e*a that
wa>;!)atohed out in tbe spring, and tbe
goose u>u*t be not be killed uutii the
Indian summer has passed away. A
b"ne t&kou front a goose hatched in May
ln.li year has a row of dots around tbe
keel of it indicating the teinperature ;
and tbe darker tbe spots the oolder the
weather. It is claimed that the mark«
dividing the bone indicate the three
winter months, December beginuing at
the front. Those who have read this
year's bone carefully, say rt indicates
more regular weather than that of last
year,'and not so severe. There will bs
many days during which running wster
will freeze. The coldest weather will
occur during tbo first half of Jauuary,
aud in that time there will be several
days of freezing. It will be the severest
part of the whole season. Near the
point of the bone the discoloration is a
Utile heavy, thvs showing that '.be first
day of winter will give proof of tbe sea's
change.
January will be ushered in with cold,
and the cold will strcngthes as the days
lengthen, the coljest day of tbo winter
about January Bth. Tbe severe
weather will be brief, followed by ris
ing temperature and heavy thaws, and
the lust of the month will see many
rains aod snows During Febuary there
will not be any very cold weather, but it
will be a rather disagreaable month with
suows and raius A few cold days will
bo all that Febuary will contribute to
winter. Ad early and decided ,thaw is
ainone the promises of the bone # The
Febuary thaw will o'erflow the moun
tain streams, aud disastrous floods n.ay
be looked for.
DIDEN'T HOLD STILL.
Judge (to Pat, who had been arrest
ed for beating Mike) —Well, you did
pound him, didn't you ?
Pat—Yis, yer Honor, I shtruck hiui
on tbe nose, the ugliest part ef his onld
face.
Judge (in astonishment)—On his
"ose 1 J ost look at bis two black
eyes.
Pat—Well, be didn't hould still
whsn I shtruck him.--Epoch.
DON'T RENT LAND.
A man can't afford to expend his la
bor, energy and time on rented laid. If
a man does rent, bs should of course pay
tbe promiisd amount, but he should not
rent, for more than a ycarortwo at least.
We advise our fritnd, although be must
be nearly, if not quite sixty years of age,
to buy him OD« aors ot land and erect
thereon a log hoase—one acre, at least.
(Is can surely do that much and then
bis home will be bis own. He may rent
a few acres to cultivate, but let him
live under his owe roof. Next fall he
can buy a few acres mors, and, if he
livos five years, be can have s snug littls
place ot his own, and have the fruits of
bis labors to lay aside. There it no bops
for the man who lives 011 rented land.
The very cream of bis labors must go
ink tbe coffers of 'be lsndlord. We
find ne fault with tbis. It is all right
—it is matter which, like the price of
cotton, rfgulatea itself. Do not wait
until you can buy a hundred or more
acres and pay all dowu. If you wait for
'his you will wait too long. Now is tbe
time—the goldsn time. Property will
never be cheaper than at present. Buy
one acre, and build you a home on it, ot
your own, it matters nut how bumble it
may be. It will be yours. Better live
iu a lug hut of your own, than a man
sion Belonging to your neighbor, which
you may rent and pay for twice in a few
years tijpe, but from wbicli you may it
any time be ejected Wadosboro Intel.
Itgencer.
Pet«r Bennett, a wealthy old miser
living it Njwport, Me., who distrusted
banks and kept bis money in his house,
was buateo nearly to death Sunday nigbt
and robbed uf in cub.
FARM AND OAlt DEN NOTES,
A bog's shin is waterproof and baa no
porca except those ou the inside of the
front legs.
Seven or eight weeks' old pigs should
be weaned for their owu and their moth
er's good.
R** ohefjei tev aiii alxed
with the fond tw"ce a week, are said to
be a preventative of a bicker, cliolera.
Reots are exeelleet for slieep in win
ter and are espeeiahv important with
beavy grain feeding to keeping the di
gestive orgac in full vigor.
Many ot tbe ilia affecting the hogs
ire due to tilth) pens It is not so muvb
in the amount of filth that tbe difficulty
is met ss in the dstLpuesa caused by tbe
filth.
As sson as the crops have been re
moved from the garden plot plow it and
allow no weeds to grow, which will
greatly lessen the garden work next sea
son.
To train a flock ot sheep raise a lamb
at tbe bouse, teach it to eouie when
called aud tnen put it with the flock.
By oalliDg tbe petted lamb the others
will follow.
Give the hogs pure fresh water to
drink; swill will not answer the purpose
ef water •» very little salt, wood
ashes and charcoal should be hrown
in their pens at times.
Keeping a close watch over the plough
point, and having it shaip, or replacing
it frequently with a new one, wilt often
save ten times the cost of tiic plough in
labor.
A cow in milk should never be driv
n faster than a walk. Uood cows have
large aud well filled udders, which cause
pain to them if they are hurried or
driven on a run.
Fine manure for crops is nmro valua
ble than coaise. Hens can break up
better perhaps limn anyone of the ma
chines invented for the purpose. Scat
ter some wh>at over the pile a d tu-n
ibem on
Run jireen clover, rye, wlic.it, oats or
corn through the feed cutter, set to cut
iu ha.'f-ineh lengths, aud feed tc fowls
confined in yards. This is tbe soiling
system applied to poulfry keeping, and
works admirably, as those koow who
have tried it.
There is nothing that will fatten a
pig as quickly as swiet potatoes. 1 hey
are superior to ecru for that purpose.
Pick out these that are marketable and
boil tbe culls for the pigs. Tbcy may
be given to stscrs also and can be fad
taw er eoeked.
ABOLITION OF TAX PROBABLE
The great fnroe brought to bear on
members of Congress tv; th reference te
tbe tobaeeo tax has led n large number
of them to express their views thereon,
and tbe result is decidedly in favor of a
repeal. In the last of Tobacco
published in Ndw York City tbe opin
ions of a large numhor of members are
g'ven on the subject. Tbe number of
members who replied to inquiries were
280. Of these 243 were in favor of re
peal. 4 opposed to it. 43 in favor of
repeal with reduced tariff aud 52 non
eommittal. \ casual glance at the fig
ures shows that a majority favor a repeal.
This nuiubtr is made up of members
from both parties, and as the question
has some to the point o a demand for
settlement one way or the other, it is
likely tha' a cotnpr nuise will be made,
in which both parties will acoeed some
thing to the other. This all absorbing !
question hangs in a balance witb the
points decidedly in favor of repeal.—
Southern Tobacco Journal.
We do not believe the people of this
immediate section aro so mush interest
ed about the tariff as they are the inter
nal revenue. The taiiff ">n tobacco and
distilled spirits—fruit brandy especially
concert's thorn more than anything
else. On this question we doubt if they
*ru in perfect accord with the views ex
pressed 1 v the President through his
message to Ccugiess. Gold Lrif.
Holly aud Ivy are tlie most esteemed
Christmas greeui ir Kugland. A large
trade is found in New Y'oik and Phila
delphia and elsewhere, just before Christ
mas, lor holly wlii* '1 is shipped fretn
Virginia and ev-11 fro u England. The
English fpocies has a I*, er leaf than
that in our country. Holly is also
krtown under the cause holm-tree.
PUNGENT SNUI'P.
A HAMDSOMS COMPLIMENT.
Mies Ethel.—"Mr. Fsalbsrly paid
you a very haedsome compliment last
night, Clara
Miss Clara. -«« Ob, did he ' What
■is it t»»
Miss Ethel;—"He spoke of your new
black-velyet suit, and thought be never
saw you look so well. 'lt is wonderful,'
be said, 'what a diflerenoe dieess makes
with some people V "
WHEN SHE MEANS BUSTNEBS.
"Clara has returned my engagement
ring," sighed Charley, "and all is over
between us."
"W hat kind of a ring is it !" asked
experienced Georgo--"diamond ?"
"No; a cheap affair; ouly cost a coup
le of dollars."
"Well, don't you give up the ship,
old man; si "1 be all right in a day or
two. It is only when a girl lets go of
a dismand riug that she really means
business."—Harper's Bazanr.
A MAIDEN'S MISTAKE.
Bride—"Did you reoeive the piece
of wedding cake I sen', you ?"
Schoolmate—"Yes; dear."
"Now, tell me what kind of a bust and
you dreamed about."
"I don't like to think about it. lie
was an awful creature, with hoofs and
horng and the most horrible face conld
imagine. Ob, it was terrible."
"Meroy iue ! Did you'put the take
under your pillow J"
"No, 1 ate it."—Omaha World.
DULL TIMES WEST.
Eastern Man— ,: llow is business iu
Prune City 1"
Western Man—'-Everything's Head;
don't know what the country is coming
E. H.—'*V> hy, I beard ten new lac
tones were going up there."
W. M.—"Yos, that's so."
E M—'• Atid t new board of trade
had started m opposition lo the old ]
one."
W M—"Yes, I believe so."
E M—'• And 1 was told four hun
dred houses were. in course of con
struction.''
W M—"Yes, 1 s'pose that's about
the number."
E M—"But you say thiugs are
dull."
W M—"Dill's nename for it; dead,
absolutely dead. Hhy, sir, I staked
out a suburb, only fifty miles away, into
tweaty-foot lots at SIO,OOO a lot, an' I
ain't sold a blamed one of 'tm."—.T>d
Bits.
We cannot recall ip the Su-th any
such destructive forest fires as srs now
raging over a great area. The ex
tent of the damage already done is not
definitely known, aud th.e fires are still-
I aging with unabated intensity. Tbe
loug dry season has rendered it possible
for those fires to extend with with ex
ceeding rapidity, aud it seems to be
almost impossible to stop their ravages
Oue of tbe annoying features of calamity
by fires is that so many of tbem arc tbs
result of sbee- carelessness or dsvilish
ness --Ex.
. BE A MAN.
Tbe highest attainment for a young
man ts to be a man. Tbis world is
full of counterfeits. But it is a grand
thing upright in defence of truth and
principle. When persecution oomes,
some bide their faces until the storm
passes Oy; others can be bought for a
mess cf potlage. From such u one tnrn
away. But stand by a friend: be a
man; do not tun away when danger
threatens to overwhelm him or yourself
Think for yourself. Uead good books
and dread niert's faces The eye is ihc
wiudnw to tbo soul; tiso your oyos and
hold your tongue. If opposition comos
meet it manfully. If success cro-rns
your i fforts, bear it quietly. Do your
own thinking and ke> p your own secrets;
worship no man tor his lineage ot bis
wealth PiDe feathers don't always
cover fine birds. Be sober, bo honest
be just in all your dealings with the
world; be true. They will ecll you for
money or popularity; don't trust them.
Wear but one face and let that be an
honsst one.— Farm.
NO. 24
PIKINGB.
From the Wilmington hi or.
The President is said to work fifteeen
hours a day when tn Washington, lie
i» toogb and san stand it,
Seuth Wales is so overrun with
rabbits that it eSers $125,000 for the
invention of un eiterminator. Seud
for 60,000 American boys and their
"dsugs."
Tlie elephant Alice who was burned
bad a "curiosity abop" in her stomach.
She was cut open, when it was found
as described in the World :
i ''Littlo did this particular elephant
dream when she deinnrely stole and
swallowed pennies one by one, outiery,
etc., that they would bo recovered.
Tbe stomach was found full of hay,
and in the bay was found between three
and pennies, part of a
jaek-kDife, a job lot of caue ferules, a
coil of lead pipe, snd a collection of
assarted pebbles."
The National Democratic Committee
will meet in Washington soon. Will it
undertake ko formulate a platferiu for
the whole party and thus remove tbe
necessity of having this work done in a
National Convention ? If they should
do this, will they not be good enough
also to nominate the candidate* I
They enn thus get ahead of the Repub
licans. A big thing on ice.
President Carnot is nothiug of a gen
ius, it is said in Paris, but a man of
solid parts. lie has a domestic wife
and n son-in-law.
Tbe prospect of a reunion of tbe Lib
eral party is uow regarded as hopeless.
Lord Hartiugton now sleeps soundly in
tke Tory lap and tbo venerable queen
is keeping the flies off of him.
In Clay County, Ark., and in some
of tbe adjoiniog oounties, tbe black dip
theria is raging with fearful mortality.
Thus far over fifty deaths have occurred
and eminent physicians from abroad
have been£sent for.
An eleven .year-old boy in Philadel
phia died from the effects of "narocotie
poisoning from smoking cigsrettes."
Boys, bewaro of the weod, and cspeo
allv in tbis shape.
Thero have been 3,043 new post
offices established during tbe year and
1,600 discontinued. Duriug ihe year
13,078 postmasters wore appointed.
Pennsylvania leads. There arc 7,745
money offices in operation, au increase
of 481.
It i» ssid to be a fact that during
the orange seasou (Philadelphia 'alone
receives weekly between 20,000 aud
30,000 boxes, and New York oven
more.
Tampa is happy. What [medical
science could not do* Jsck Frost has
done. Yellow Jack retreated before
the other Jack.
Philadelphia is now enjoying tbo
sensation of having two genuine lepers
in one of its mother and
daughter.
The Boston Post says that this
country is now shipping 800,000, bar
rels of apples each yoar to Loudon,
Liverpool and Glasgow.
We have publiihsd in our State nam
department from time to time some
gratifying reports as to the produotion
ef sorghum molasses Mecklenburg
couuty seems to have led in tbia pro
duction. It is well that the farmers
are returning to the growth of the sor
ghum cano that was *o extensixely cul
tivated during the War. It is an exoel
lent thing to have in the household.
When well made it is appetising and
wholesome Tbe Star has notod the
experiments in the Northwest in wakiug
► ugar from the sorghum uane. Tbe
expsriments made have been satisfactory
and tbe production is extending.
There is a sorghum sugar null at Fort
Scott, Kansas.
' • • •« e.v *
Seoator Chandler has introduced a
bill to regulate the holding of Congress
ional elections in South Carolina, Flor
ida, Misitsippi and Lauisiacna.'some
thing after tbe order of thiugs which
| prevailed ID reconstruction days.
! The President's annusl mossage to
the Congress was laid before that body
i yesterday, and was presented in full in
1 our excanges this morning; it is devoted
> entirely tos discussion of the revenuo
question, wbiob beholds is the abaorb-
I ing one of the day, and a sweeping re
i ductinn in tbe tariff etetoius is ably.
I n'gued.